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A week to honor integrity
Just because some famous person lifted material from a classmate’s paper when in college doesn’t mean it’s OK to plagiarize. And though it may cost in the short run, in the end, ethical behavior is its own reward. These are some of the messages that will be delivered by scholars, researchers, and a noted whistle-blower during Academic Integrity Week, which begins Monday, Oct. 23. And this year, it’s not just a Penn observance. Mayor John Street has proclaimed a citywide observation and will present a copy of the proclamation to President Judith Rodin on Friday, Oct. 27.
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Off to college, 32 years after high school
Steve Garlinger never considered himself the academic type. “When I was in high school, I took a trade-prep course in carpentry,” he said. “I was into the practical part, but not the book part. I did just enough bookwork to pass my courses and get out of there.” Now, after a stint in the Army, two jobs and three decades, he’s found out he was wrong about himself, much to his delight. And it happened purely by chance.
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Quickie lunch
Though the best quickie lunch options may not be the best anymore when too many people know about them, we figured we would ask — Where can we get a decent lunch in 15 minutes or less? Pete Coppa, Wharton ’02 “I’ll go with the Greek Lady. She puts on a lot of sweet peppers.” Libby Irwin, College ’02 “Williams [Hall]. It has a line but it’s not like a cafeteria. They have a mean salad and good oatmeal raisin cookies.”
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Abel and Jarrett win Packards
Two Penn professors have won prestigious David and Lucile Packard Foundation Awards, giving them each a grant of $625,000 for their research, which has included Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia. Packard selected them and 22 others as the “most promising science and engineering researchers at universities in the United States.”
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Who's zoomin' who?
We all know what tango is about. It’s that sultry Latin dance form that’s all about seduction, jealousy and the tension between men and women, right?
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Welfare reform lies
Affluent people have a moral responsibility to work to raise wages and end poverty. So said Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and lecturer Barbara Ehrenreich before a rapt College Hall audience Sept. 21. Based on that premise Ehren-reich issued a clarion call to action in her talk “Down and Out in Post-Welfare America” — this year’s Judith Roth Berkowitz Endowed Lectureship in Women’s Studies. But first, she examined the moral messages behind welfare reform.
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The Constitution is in the hands of lawyers
Ah, the four branches of government: executive, legislative, judicial — and lawyers. Lawyers? Okay, so they’re not mentioned explicitly in the Constitution. But according to Walter E. Dellinger III’s Sept. 26 lecture, entitled “The Supreme Court and the Presidency,” the world of lawyers — whether it be lawyerly thought processes guiding presidents’ actions or attorneys litigating behind the scenes — exerts a strong influence on the way the country is run.
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Little tiny hairs are way cool
A piece of lint may hold the key to faster computers, cooler motors and more heat-resistant aircraft. But first, scientists have to get the lint in line. Needless to say, this is no ordinary lint. The stuff we’re talking about here contains hundreds of thousands of nanotubes — cylinders of pure carbon about 1/10,000th the width of a human hair. Scientists experimenting with these tiny tubes have already discovered their incredible strength and their superior electrical conductivity. Now, Penn scientists have found that they’re excellent heat conductors, too.
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Rockin' and twangin'
Rockabilly performer Sleepy LaBeef is the featured performer on “The World Cafe” Oct. 20, and the brains behind Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven pay host David Dye a visit the very next day. Besides these, the usual assortment of musical flavors are on the Cafe menu these next two weeks. Thursday, Oct. 12 Teddy Thompson performs music from his debut album
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"Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens"
John Evelyn Edited by John E. Ingram 480 pages, 86 black-and-white illustrations, $69.95 cloth It is not often that a major work of scholarship is published 350 years after it was first composed, but the University of Pennsylvania Press is delighted to offer John Evelyn’s “Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens” in book form for the first time. Evelyn was a garden designer, a noted author and translator of garden books, and a founding member of the Royal Society in 1660, where experimental science fueled the changing intellectual debate.